A few common themes echo throughout forthcoming self-help titles ... PW spoke with authors whose books aim to help readers shut out the noise and key into what’s really important.

Credit: Various publishers Gone are the days when self-help books were practically required to be cheesy, impersonal, and boring. Now, if you know where to look, you'll find empowering ...

Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into how to live—or how not to. But the self-help ...

By Carolyn Todd Of the thousands of self-help books on the market, which ones are truly helpful? “It’s uncommon to find a self-help book that feels different,” said Vienna Pharaon ...

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It’s not a self-help book, he just hopes it helps. It does. It’s a valuable piece of work. Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince is out now (Macmillan, £20).

There is, however, one genre of books that I’ve never really bothered to explore, one that promises to make a practical difference: self-help. As Jessica Lamb-Shapiro writes in “Promise Land ...

Whether you're looking to grow your finances, creativity, or self-love, these self-help books will get you on the right track. The term “self-help books” doesn’t always inspire confidence.

Gone are the days when self-help books were practically required to be cheesy, impersonal, and boring. Now, if you know where to look, you'll find empowering, genuinely useful self-help books ...